86 How I Failed Ethics Chords

Intro: Em Am D Verse: G C D Though majoring in Visual and Environmental Studies C Am D And minoring in History of Sci G C D I had to retake Ethics from my Mennonite professor C D G For whom my skepticism didn't fly Interlude: Em Am D Verse: G C D The first time I made mincemeat of the standard propositions C Am D Establishing a so-called moral science G C D And I declared morality an offshoot of aesthetics C D G And got a failing C for my defiance

Interlude: Em Am D Verse: G C D So next semester I back to Divinity School trotted C Am D Proverbial tail not between my legs G C D And spent the whole course positing my own ethical system C D G While other college students emptied kegs Interlude: Em Am D Verse: G C D Information ethics, cyberethics — both since taken — C Am D Said: Maximize the information flow G C D Toward a hypothetical end state in which the cosmos C D G Consists entirely of our info G C D And at the highest level possible, not only data C Am D But data about data dot dot dot G C D Or life on top of life on top of life, et cetera C D G Profundity, my mother'd say — I'd not Bridge: Em Bm C Em Bm Am C Bm D Verse: G C D My Mennonite professor did concede I'd done the coursework C Am D Although my system left him quite dismayed G C D Depending, as it did, on neither history nor Jahweh C D G And gave me, finally, a passing grade